READ N' WEED

A blog for all the people who enjoy reading a good book as much as smoking some good weed. Because in the end it comes down to the same thing: You sort of dive into another reality and let your mind wander to some beautiful places.

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“I don’t recognize myself. I don’t know who I am anymore.  And it’s all fun and games until someone loses an I.”

Don Winslow, Savages

-D

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-"I think I’m losing my shit.” -“Shit’s overrated. Lose it.”

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“It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.”

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

-D

[0rient-express]

[sunbeam-onacloudyday]

How often at night, When the heavens are bright, With the light of the glittering stars, Have I stood there amazed, And asked as I gazed, If their glory exceeds that of ours.

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-D

[gypsyastronaut]

Jim Morrison’s on stage arrest (New Haven, December 9th 1967)

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Es ist ein gewöhnlicher Montagmorgen. Die Sonne strahlt auf den, in der Zwischenzeit schon heißen, dunklen Asphalt. Am Straßenrand erkennt man ein schwarzes Auto, daneben stehen zwei Beamte. Sie beobachten die zahlreichen Fahrzeuge, die durch die Mautstelle fahren. Routinemäßig halten die beiden…

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THOUGHTS FROM WITHIN

by Woody Harrelson

I sometimes feel like an alien creature for which there is no earthly explanation.  Sure I have human form walking erect and opposing digits, but my mind is upside down. I feel like a run-on sentence in a punctuation crazy world,  and I see the world around me like a mad collective dream. 

An endless stream of people move like ants from the freeway,  cell phones, pc's, and digital displays.  "In Money We Trust",  we'll find happiness the prevailing attitude; like a genetically modified irradiated Big Mac is somehow symbolic of food. Morality is legislated,  prisons over-populated,  religion is incorporated.  The profit-motive has permeated all activity;  we pay our government to let us park on the street.  And war is the biggest money-maker of all,  we all know missile envy only comes from being small. Politicians and prostitutes are comfortable together;  I wonder if they talk about the strange change in the weather. This government was founded by, of, and for the people,  but everybody feels it like a giant open sore - they don't represent us anymore.  And blaming the President for the country's woes is like yelling at a puppet for the way it sings.  Who's the man behind the curtain pulling the strings? A billion people sitting watching their TV in the room that they call living,  but as for me I see living as loving and since there is no loving room I sit on the grass under a tree dreaming of the way things used to be.  Pre-Industrial Revolution which of course is before the rivers and oceans, and skies were polluted.  Before Parkinson's, and mad cows and all the convoluted cacophony of bad ideas like skyscrapers, and tree paper, and earth rapers like Monsanto and Dupont had their way as they continue to today. This was pre-us,  back when the buffalo roamed and the Indian's home was the forest, and God was nature and heaven was here and now.  Can you imagine clean water, food, and air,  living in community with animals and people who care? Do you dare to feel responsible for every dollar you lay down?  Are you going to make the rich man richer or are you going to stand your ground?  You say you want a revolution,  a communal evolution,  to be a part of the solution...  Maybe I'll be seeing you around.

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‘Have you really read all those books in your room?’ Alaska laughing, 'Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of 'em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.’

John Green, Looking for Alaska

-D

[drugsruleeverythingaroundme]

☮ we’re all traveling through time together  ☯

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“But suddenly the Mirror went altogether dark, as dark as if a hole had opened in the world of sight, and Frodo looked into emptiness. In the black abyss there appeared a single Eye that slowly grew, until it filled nearly all the Mirror. So terrible was it that Frodo stood rooted, unable to cry out or to withdraw his gaze. The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, like a cat’s, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

-D

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There’s a beast inside all of us. A monstruous creature lurking in the depths of our souls always looking to break free and cause havoc and pain in our lifes. Mostly we can control it, we have the willpower to suppress it, we are able to lock it up where it belongs. But sometimes, just sometimes, we decide to unburden ourselves from the constant struggle. We dull our senses so we can be free from the endeavour set off by this ongoing fight. And we earned it -T

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Trying not to think of you is the hardest thing to do. My thoughts can do no other than stare at you for what they see is like sand in a desert gently moved by a breath of air. Nevertheless I manage from time to time to not have my thoughts revolve around you. Weed helps to do so. When I smoke my mind wanders like the grains of sand miles through the sky and for an instant I can keep it off you.

-D

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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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Frankly, I don't give a damn. -D

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In your life you will always come across people who end up judging you. They might think of you as a goof-off, as someone who doesn’t get his shit together. For them, hearsay is the truth. They don’t care whether it’s true or not. Most of the time these people don’t even really know you. But even if they do and even if they are right, the only thing you can do is to live your life to the fullest and to not give a fuck about other’s opinions. Because in the end they are going to judge you anyway. So whatever.

-D

[epic]

relax

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Every now and then I like to press PAUSE on life to admire and suck in all of its beauty. So when I’m standing in front of my window (surely, a view like this helps a lot, especially at sunset) and watch out there, I can’t help but to think that life is truly beautiful. Every second of it. Sometimes we live too fast and miss all the really good things in life. So when I feel like it’s time to press PLAY again, I go back to my everyday life but I already look forward to my next break from it. -D